White House Press Sec Slammed for 'Maybe the Biggest Lie'
The White House Press Secretary is supposed to be promoting facts not White House lies continuously . . . A government that constantly lies to its people has no right to govern those people.
By Bradley Cortright May 2, 2023 at 11:03am
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is getting slammed for telling a whopper of a false claim about the situation at the southern border.
During a press briefing on Monday, Jean-Pierre insisted, “[President Joe Biden] has tools that he’s used to make sure we do this. We actually deal with the immigration system in a humane way, in a way that actually deals with what we’re seeing at the border.”
“And that’s why you’ve seen the parolee program be so successful. When it comes to illegal immigration, you’ve seen it come down by more than 90%. And that’s because of this, the actions that this president has taken,” she claimed.
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Author Scott Greer tweeted, “The community notes will fact check this, but the media won’t. So this will stand as a true statement for people who get their news from traditional sources.”
“This might be the worst lie ever told by a White House Press Secretary,” tweeted comedian Tim Young.
The Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross wrote, “Maybe the biggest lie from the White House podium so far this year.”
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Several “Community Notes” pointed out there were 2.76 million illegal border crossings in the 2022 fiscal year, setting a new record. And there were 1.7 million in the 2021 fiscal year.
However, Jean-Pierre is somewhat correct about a decrease in illegal border crossings.
President Joe Biden and his administration have implemented stricter immigration measures aimed at curtailing illegal border crossings. And so far, it does appear they have had an impact.
But not to the tune of “more than 90%.”
NBC News reported U.S. Border Patrol officials encountered migrants 128,877 times in February, and 128,913 in January.
The February numbers are the lowest since Feb. 2021, and far lower than the 221,693 encounters in Dec. 2022. However, those numbers do not account for a 90% drop off in illegal border crossings.
But what about the March numbers? According to Border Patrol officials, the number of encounters at the border rose to 162,317, up 25% from February.
Still, officials said the number of encounters in March marked a 23% decrease from the previous year.
So there has been a decrease, just nowhere near the “more than 90%” that Jean-Pierre claimed. Unless she somehow conflated the monthly numbers with the annual numbers, it is entirely unclear where that apparently made-up statistic came from.
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